Bless you
I said yesterday that this week’s been a good one. Well, technically I said: “I’ve really enjoyed this [working] week so far - it’s been noticeably better than recent weeks.” But we’re just mincing words now.
Anyway, today was also a good one. Firstly: Commenting to Simon M. on MSN Messenger last night that we rarely see each other around Racodac, today I bumped into him on the way to Ben W’s gaff to do some filming. Extraordinary.
Secondly: Filming went particularly well. Not that there were any complex shots, but technology could’ve disagreed with us. Okay, technology *did* disagree with us, as we managed to edit the footage together in entirety, but couldn’t present to tutor John L. because the audio wouldn’t export. Bah.
Returning to the subject of the filming itself, as it was undoubtedly the highlight of my day - we needed to record someone breathing for about a minute or so.
Now, there’s probably a special sound recording booth at Racodac, but none of us knew off-hand and we’d probably have to book it in advance anyway. So we left Lucy F. in a room at Ben’s to record herself breathing.
Thing is, for the camera to pick up the breath, she had to breathe heavily. And one of our requirements was to progressively breathe faster, ending on a desperate gasp without an exhalation.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out where I’m going with this one. Let me just say that it sounded VERY sordid, and I had great fun editing the sound when back at Racodac with Lucy by my side.
I even imitated the playback when not at the computer, adding groans as & where I saw fit.
’twas a good giggle.